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Sterope
(1)
Parentage: Daughter of Atlas (1) and Pleione
Alternative parentage: Atlas (1) and Hesperis;
Atlas
(1) and Aethra (1);
Erechtheus;
Cadmus;
Queen of the
Amazons
Biographical
Along with Merope (1),
Electra (2),
Celaeno (1),
Maia, Alcyone
(2), and Taygete,
Sterope was one of the Pleiades, she was transformed into the Pleiades
constellation
with her sisters. Another tradition makes her the wife of Ares
and mother of Oenomaus, and another, the wife of Hyperochus and mother
of Oenomaus.
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Sources
1. Sir W. Smith, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1870.
2. Sir W. Smith, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1870.
3. Sir W. Smith, ed. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1870.
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